SmilingMountain's Character Art Practice Thread

SmilingMountain

Hello Polycount,

Thought I'd finally post some of my character work here. The goal of this thread is to improve my character art, and work towards creating a decent entry level portfolio.

Since I was a little rusty, I started out with some lower poly stuff, I also wanted to improve my hand painted textures. I looked at the work of artists like Ben Mathis, Pior Orbeson and Jonathan Rush for inspiration. Any comments and critique on how I can improve my textures (colour, value, edge control etc.) would be greatly appreciated.

Male face practice based on Andrew Loomis' ideal proportions, textures in Photoshop:



Female Anatomy Study to test out 3dCoat:



Low Poly Star Trek, also done in 3d Coat:


Thanks for checking out my work! If you'd like to see any additional images UV's, wires etc. please ask.

SmilingMountain

A better image of the female bust:

SmilingMountain

Currently working on a model of Howard Wolowitz aka Simon Helberg from TBBT. It's aimed at mobile/tablet platform, and is about 2000 tris and 1 512x512 texture map. Currently at the unwrapping stage going into texturing in 3d coat. I'm looking for any general critique, but to give you some ideas:

-Does the silhouette read well?
-Does the joint topology look like it will deform OK, could the topology in other areas be better?
-Could I make better use of the UV space
-Would this be interesting as a folio piece, is it boring?
- Is the tri count to high/low for the intended platform

model
Here is a screenshot from max and the UV's.




Thanks!